Month: March 2025

The hype behind Avengers: Doomsday continues to pick up steam following a nearly six-hour livestream to unveil its stellar cast. However, even with a loaded roster of high-profile celebrities, one name continues to be a primary talking point — and likely will remain one over the next year.

Robert Downey Jr. stepping into the role of Doctor Doom has the potential to set up an incredibly unique film and move the former Iron Man actor over to the other team.

Marvel’s cast reveal for the upcoming Avengers films included numerous actors reprising former superhero roles. Recently, Screenrant caught up with Julian McMahon, the former 2005 Doctor Doom from Fantastic Four, who spoke about Downey taking on the role.

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McMahon predicted that Downey Jr.’s performance as Doctor Doom would be “extraordinary” and praised the 59-year-old actor during a discussion with Screenrant at SXSW.

“It’s Robert, you know what I mean? What are you going to say? His body of work speaks for itself,” McMahon said of Downey Jr. “He’s a super talented guy. I love watching his work. When we did the movies years ago, we were at the [precipice] of all that stuff happening. So, we were finding our way a lot, and we were trying to figure out what space the movie itself lived in.

“… I think now that there’s so many different realms of establishment of the way that you look at those pieces, you can pretty much do so many different things now,” he continued.

“If you’ve got Robert Downey Jr, who’s one of the great creatives of the last however many years we’ve been watching him for, mixed with the elements of how we can make movies these days? I think it’s going to be pretty extraordinary.”

This month, superstar singer Meghan Trainor ignited a lot of attention with her body transformation after she appeared to shed a noticeable amount of weight in recent months. Now, she’s opening up a little bit on how it happened.

Over the weekend, Trainor attended the 2025 Billboard Women in Music event where she broke her silence on her dramatic body transformation and explained what she did to shed all of her weight.

“Science is the secret. I love it,” Trainor told Entertainment Tonight when asked about the secret behind her new look. “I learned a lot of tricks that I had no idea [about]. I was working out so incorrectly wrong for so long. I was running and doing cardio and my body was inflamed, always.”

Trainor said that she used certain techniques to “biohack” her body.

“I’m trying to biohack my body,” she added. “So anything that’ll help me age backward, I’m into it.” 

“I just learned about the NADs [supplements],” Trainor continued. “I was like, ‘Make me Hailey Bieber. I’ll do it. I’ll take it’ … I’m trying all the things. I love a doctor explaining stuff to me.”

The “NADs” that Trainor referred to is nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide – a supplement that helps with cell function.

A year ago, Trainor told People that she was dedicated to her health and wellness journey after giving birth to her second child.

“I’m feeling fit. I’ve never been so fit,” she told the outlet in March 2024. “I already told my household. I was like, ‘I am training for the Olympics, OK?’ I want to train and eat clean, and feel good when I’m dancing and singing. I don’t wanna be so winded, because right now, I’m winded.”

Clearly, all her hard work has paid off as it’s reflected in her dramatic body transformation.

Over the weekend, country music star Morgan Wallen ignited quite a controversy when he bizarrely walked off the set of Saturday Night Live immediately after his appearance instead of taking part in the traditional Goodnight and Credits portion of the show. But he seems to be simply carrying on as if nothing happened.

At the conclusion of the show, the country music singer left the stage abruptly and immediately as the credits were still rolling while the rest of the crew exchanged pleasantries and congratulations on the stage. Wallen then posted a photo from the tarmac of the airport on his Instagram story with the caption “Get me to God’s country.”

The incident sparked outrage from SNL fans and even prompted a response from SNL star Kenan Thompson. The SNL star said he “definitely saw it” but wasn’t exactly sure what the deal was.

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“I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that. I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way,” Thompson told Entertainment Weekly. 

Thompson thought that Wallen might have even had to use the bathroom.

“You see somebody before you get a chance to say hi or say good job or anything like that, they just dipping,” Thompson said. “I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something.”

The SNL made it clear that Wallen’s antics were definitely unusual.

“It’s definitely a spike in the norm,” Thompson says. “We’re so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody’s saying, ‘Good job, good job, good job.’ So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what that’s about?”

“I guess it was just different because it just felt so abrupt,” Thompson continued. “And it was already such a small grouping on the stage anyway. So it was just like, oh wow, that was pretty visible. You know what I’m saying? It was a pretty visible thing.”

Wallen himself has not addressed the issue, but one report suggests that the move was actually pre-planned and was not intended to be a slight at SNL.

“Sources in Wallen’s camp say there’s nothing to the conjecture that the singer was signaling tension, maintaining that he had a good time and no slight was intended with either his prominent exit or his Instagram post,” Variety reported.

“No slight was intended, and the buzz misreads the star just being off-the-cuff as usual,” the outlet’s report continued.

Regardless, it seems like Wallen is simply moving on with his life and career as usual, despite the controversy.

On Monday night, Wallen broke his silence on social media as he made his first public post since the controversy – but he didn’t actually address the incident. Instead, he simply posted a video on Instagram promoting his new song “Come Back As A Redneck.”

In the video, Wallen can be seen cleaning his rifle, shooting a target and riding a dirtbike through the woods with his new song playing in the background. The caption of the post read, “Maybe then you’ll understand.”

It’s not clear whether or not Wallen intends to publicly address the SNL controversy. Bt as of now, it seems like he’s planning to just move on as if nothing happened.

Over the weekend, multiple news outlets, social media content creators, and fans noticed that Hailey Bieber appeared to “unfollow” her husband, pop star Justin Bieber, on social media. She has now broken her silence on the rumors and controversy.

It has been a tumultuous few weeks for Justin Bieber on social media. Earlier this month, the pop superstar posted a message on his Instagram story in which he seemingly admitted that he had unacknowledged “hate” that was causing him to feel like he was “drowning”

“I was always told when I was a kid not to hate. But it made me feel like I wasn’t allowed to have it and so I didn’t tell anyone I’ve had it,” he wrote in the post on March 16. “Which made me feel like I have been drowning feeling unsafe to acknowledge it. I think we can only let hate go by first acknowledging it’s there. How couldn’t we feel hate from all of the hurt we have experienced?”

This post came just a few days after he made a different cryptic post on his Instagram story on March 13 in which he admitted that he has always felt “unworthy” of his success and felt like a “fraud.”

He then made yet another cryptic post on Instagram in which he admitted that he had “anger issues” but was trying not to “react so much.”

“I got anger issues too, but I wanna grow and not react so much smh,” Bieber wrote in the caption of his post on Instagram.

He followed those posts by posting a stream of seemingly random selfies and photos over the past few days with little or no context. He even went “live” on Instagram on Saturday night, after which fans and news outlets began to notice that Justin was no longer listed in Hailey’s “following” list on Instagram.

While that obviously led to a lot of attention and speculation from fans and the media, Hailey broke her silence on the issue on Monday.

In the comments section of a video detailing the controversy, Hailey claimed that it was simply a “glitch.”

“It’s a glitch. Didn’t unfollow him. Hope this helps!” Hailey commented on a TikTok video.

Hailey and Justin have been married since Sept. 13, 2018. They welcomed their first child, Jack, in August.

It’s hard to believe that Reacher Season 3 is over, and with its ending, the show is saying goodbye to not one, but two of its wonderful heroines. Neagley (Maria Sten) is headed into her own spinoff series, and agent Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) gave Reacher a short goodbye after their brief romance. But, for those who are looking to see what Cassidy does next, or if you’re looking to check out her other work, you may notice that the tough-talking Boston accent she has in Reacher isn’t how she always sounds in other shows or films.

Speaking to Men’s Journal, Cassidy, who is British by birth, explained how she found Susan Duffy’s voice. Literally. 

“I listened to a lot of Boston accents and just drilled it as best I could,” Cassidy tells Men’s Journal. “I found some fabulous clips online from old Boston Globe interviews with folks way back; it was these old Boston longshoremen talking about working at the docks and all this stuff. It was gorgeous to listen to.”

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Cassidy said that in order to get Duffy’s accent just right, she also worked with a dialect coach to “smooth it out.” The action of Reacher Season 3 takes place in Maine, but in the novel, Duffy also operates partially out of Boston. In fact, in the novel, unlike the show, Reacher is recruited by Duffy in Boston before he heads undercover to Maine. So, Cassidy doing a Boston accent for Duffy is very loyal to the source material. 

Then again, the entire Reacher series is a study in a Brit creating a convincing American character. Like Cassidy, author Lee Child is British, even though the vast majority of the characters throughout the Reacher novels, including Reacher himself, are Americans. Did she feel a kinship with Child because of this fact?

“I suppose yes, in a way,” Cassidy says. “Because I’ve played a lot of Americans. I have probably played more Americans than Brits. I was worried about this one because I thought the accent was so hard. I gave it a crack and hoped for the best. But yeah, I’m loving bringing these American characters to life.”

Cassidly also points out that though her version of Duffy is loyal to what readers will find in the Lee Child novel, Persuader, she feels the TV series version gave the character a richer, fuller life than what was on the page.

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“I think we get a lot more of Duffy in the show,” she says. “When you have the luxury of all eight scripts having been written, it’s just extraordinary. I had a clear beginning, middle, and end to her story arc. She’s so nuanced and I just connected to her very quickly.”

Cassidy has plenty of praise for her co-star Alan Ritchson, but also shouts out the Reacher showrunner, Nick Santora. “I took what Nick and his writing team gave me and ran with it. She just flew off the page.”

You can now binge all eight episodes of Reacher Season 3 on Amazon Prime Video.

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