It's Chase Infiniti's time and both she and One Battle After Another co-star Leonardo DiCaprio know it

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, One Battle After Another, is earning rave reviews in the run-up to its release next week. I see it Monday night, can’t wait. I’ve already said that my favorite Leonardo DiCaprio performances are when Leo goes full unhinged, and by all accounts, he’s fully unhinged in this movie.

But it’s not just Leo getting a lot of notice for this film, it’s also his young co-star Chase Infiniti. This is her first feature film role, after previously appearing in Presumed Innocent last year. This is Chase Infiniti’s big moment, and she knows it. Leo knows it, too.

We often point out when men turn up to press events half-assing their fashion while the women are fully done up top to toe, but in the case of this press tour, I appreciate that Leo—never a fashion boy—isn’t pulling focus from Chase (and Teyana Taylor when she’s around). Here they are, along with Benicio Del Toro, at a press conference in Mexico City and Chase looks GREAT. Cute and fresh and doing a Goth-lite spin on ballet-inspired style (she has a background in dance).

We noted it during the Killers of the Flower Moon era, that Leo used his spotlight to shine on Lily Gladstone, and while there is PLENTY to make fun of when it comes to Leonardo DiCaprio—I am still not over his walk of shame at the Bezos wedding—on this topic, I give him credit. He knows he’s not a fashion boy, he’s not trying to be a fashion boy, and he’s happy enough to let the talented women around him shine. Not every man in his position is like that. It’s the one reason I can never quite write him off.

What else happened today…

Turns out, a ton of people have Lyme disease and celebrities talking about it is finally opening up the conversation for regular people, too. (Popsugar)

Julia Fox doing Julia Fox things (dot edition). (Go Fug Yourself)

Today in What Fresh Hell news, Brigitte Macron, wife of French president Emmanuel Macron, is suing right-wing commentator/alleged grifter Candace Owens for defamation, after Owens spread misinformation about Brigitte, claiming she is transgender. Brigitte is expected to present “scientific evidence” proving she is a cisgender woman. This is the dumbest sh-t of all time, but also, it’s the only way to deal with these people. You have to take them to court and shut them up to the tune of millions in damages. Good luck to Brigitte, hope she takes Owens to the cleaners. (Celebitchy)

Important Cat Mayor news! After a hotly contested race featuring many fine candidates, Minerva has been elected the bike path cat mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts! Her entire campaign platform was simply “crime”. Is she for it? Against it? Committing it as we speak? Nobody knows, but everyone agrees, Minerva is tough on crime! Either tough defending it or tough doing it, we’re still not sure, but tough nonetheless! And so, Minerva is the bike path cat mayor! Congratulations to Minerva, the anti-crime defender and/or criminal mastermind extraordinaire! May her time as mayor be especially crime-y! (Boston.com)