Florence Pugh has been delivering hits after hits with films like Christopher Nolan’s Oscar winning Oppenheimer and Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune: Part 2. Having recently completed Marvel’s Thunderbolts and in between promoting her upcoming romantic drama We Live in Time, Pugh has been hustling non-stop for a while. 

Despite being a “work manic” the actress realized she needed a much deserved break. “[It’s] the first time ever in my career when I’ve actually asked for a summer break,” she said during her interview with British Vogue. The Little Women actress recalled having an epiphany last year about “how much of my life I’ve missed” and decided to take a breather from work. 

After enjoying her summer break, Pugh attended the Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of her film We Live in Time with her co-star Andrew Garfield. The film is a decade spanning tragic yet wholesome love story of Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh) who accidentally meet, fall in love, build a life and fight a major battle together. Helmed by John Crowley the film follows a non-linear pattern of story telling, jumping multiple timelines. 

The Oceans’ duo, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, were heavily praised at the Venice Film Festival, where the movie was first premiered. One of the highly anticipated films of the year has been directed by Jon Watts, who is also known to direct the Tom Holland starrer, The Spider-Man Trilogy. In conversation with Entertainment Weekly, the filmmaker opened up on how he staged the idea of bringing two veteran actors back on screen with the crime-comedy genre. 

Explaining how Watts got the actors to sign up for the film, the director went on to state that it all started in New York, where he got the motivation to pen the film. Watts explained to the media portal, “That was so stupid of me. I wrote the movie; I could have written it anywhere. I could have written it at any time of year. I chose New York at night.”

The director went on to further say, “I live here, I love New York, and I’ve been shooting Spider-Man movies that are supposed to be in New York in Atlanta for the last seven years.” 

Meanwhile, Watt revealed that both Pitt and Clooney were looking for projects to work on at the time. The duo read the script and liked Watt’s idea. The filmmaker revealed, “It’s one of those ideas that doesn’t really work unless it’s the two of them. That’s where it came from.” He further added, “But the big difference is that you don’t often get the opportunity to pitch something like that to those two guys.”

In the past 25 years, Kareena Kapoor Khan has portrayed several characters, be it Nazneen from her debut film Refugee or Chameli from the 2004 movie of the same name. However, Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Geet from Jab We Met became so iconic that they somehow became her other names. But Bebo recently clarified that she can’t be doing similar characters. Since she chose to play diverse roles over the past decades, she got a film festival named after her. 

She recently attended the event celebrating Kareena Kapoor Khan Film Festival. During the media interaction, Bebo stated, “I can’t only keep doing Geet all my life.” She further added in Hindi, “Aadi zindagi aesehe chali gai, pehle 10 saal, ke log samajhte they ke ye Geet he hai. Ab ye Poo-type k he roles… tab people were offering me those type of roles. (The first 10 years of my life went by with people thinking that I was Geet and people were just offering me ‘Poo type roles’. However, she divulged that if she had picked every role like that, she doesn’t think we would have a festival dedicated to her film legacy today.

While this year marks the 25th year of KKK, it is also when she signed India’s biggest film. An industry insider exclusively told Pinkvilla that in the last 9 months, Kareena has been offered some of the biggest Pan India feature films, and he has signed one that could be the ‘biggest and most exciting feature film of Indian Cinema’ in the coming two years.

Sharing more about it, the source told us, “It’s a role that she has not done to date, and the director in question is among the most celebrated and bankable of Indian Cinema at this point in time. She has given a nod to the film and is excited to embark on a new journey in the 25th year of her acting career.”

Meanwhile, on the work front, Bebo was last seen in Crew with Tabu, Kriti Sanon, and Diljit Dosanjh. She will be sharing the screen with actors like Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Tiger Shroff, Arjun Kapoor, and Jackie Shroff in Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again. The actioner will hit cinemas this Diwali.