Viola Davis secures her bag as president in G20

Viola Davis has a new movie coming out called G20. In G20, Viola Davis plays the president of the United States and she has to save her family and other world leaders from terrorists, led by Antony Starr, during the G20 summit. 

So it’s Die Hard at the G20 with Viola Davis as John McClane who is also the president. I love it when screenwriters let their 12-year-olds write scripts for them.

 

Legit, though, secure your bag, Viola. I will always celebrate Viola Davis getting hers. And she got hers last night, too, wearing a great red dress at the G20 premiere. It’s red like the dress in the movie! Does this count as theme dressing? If so, it’s the least obnoxious version of it. 

It’s painful to imagine a world in which America elected a Black woman president, but now there is also this layer of like…when does Hollywood acknowledge we’re not saving the world anymore? Fully acknowledging all of America’s foreign policy and military actions which have been varying degrees of complicated and criminal, but the American myth since World War II is that we’re the good guys on the world stage. But after Canada—CANADA, the nicest ones!—broke up with us on national TV, I don’t think we can claim that anymore. 

G20 is going straight to Prime Video, but I wonder at what point films like this start bombing globally and people get the message that no one wants this self-righteous bullsh-t from America. Again, lots of people never wanted it, but it’s REALLY tough to sell right now.

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What else happened today…

“Am I too young for a mammogram?” No! I am 42 and am now getting mammograms annually. Everyone with boobs should know how to self-examine, and women over 40 should get regular screenings. I lost a friend at 23 to breast cancer, it is never too soon to start checking your tits. (Popsugar)

Matt Bomer is out and about promoting his new Hulu series, Mid Century Modern, in which he co-stars with Nathan Lane and Nathan Lee Graham. It’s a classic-style sitcom about three gay men who move to Palm Springs together. It looks very mid, like a rehash of Golden Girls from the creators of Will & Grace (and Ryan Murphy), but maybe the purpose of Mid Century Modern is to show what could have been if the world was more accepting and tolerant during the sitcom boom of the Eighties and Nineties. Instead of being relegated to stock side characters, gay men are the stars. Maybe that’s the whole point. (Go Fug Yourself)

Katy Perry is going to space with Lauren Sanchez. Love that space is turning into rich people tourism, that’s great. One small step for billionaires and all that. (Celebitchy)

David Zaslav’s weird anti-toon agenda continues as Warner Bros. Discovery will demolish Building 131 on the Warner Brothers lot. It was the home of Warner Bros. Animation in the 1950s and 60s, when some of the most beloved Looney Tunes cartoons were made, including arguably the toons’ best episode of all time, “What’s Opera, Doc?”

 

What…what’s his problem with cartoons? It IS weird, right? It’s like he literally wants to erase the Looney Tunes from existence. Are we living in a Roger Rabbit sequel no one told us about? IS David Zaslav actually Judge Doom? (Cartoon Brew)