Channing & Chan

So, I know I was like, it’s too early to talk about Oscars for this year until we get through last year—Emily, the site manager, has already emailed me once about the language confusion of the award season time-warp and I wonder if she will again—but another movie to pencil in is Beth de Araújo’s Josephine, starring Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, and Mason Reeves.

It’s about a little girl who witnesses an assault and the fallout on her family. Tatum and Chan play the parents, Reeves plays the little girl, Josephine. Josephine premiered to overwhelmingly positive reviews at Sundance last month, and now it is screening in Berlin. It’s a long way to go but also…just imagine a Gemma Chan Oscar run. The STYLE.

Team Josephine is in Berlin and Gemma Chan showed up in a beautiful tiered pink gown. Is it just me, or does this feel like an update to Gwyneth Paltrow’s famed Oscar dress?

Last year, CTates got some of the best reviews of his career for Roofman, though the film didn’t catch on with audiences or award bodies. For audiences, I think it was a case of misleading marketing. The trailers made Roofman look like a comedy, maybe a dark one, but a funny movie, nonetheless. The film is, however, a pretty big downer about the failure of the American dream and capitalism crushing everyone under its boot. The red flag should have been that it’s a film from Derek Cianfrance, and Derek Cianfrance, the filmmaker behind Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, isn’t into feel-good stories.

Anyway, Josephine sounds like it will be emotionally harrowing, but CTates is pushing his boundaries as an actor, and Gemma Chan is always good. She’s always so, so good. She is overdue for trophy trail recognition! We deserve to see her nominee style! I am going to start putting this into the universe now. 2026 has started so sh-t, eventually we must get a little treat, right? I want my treat to be Gemma Chan’s style on an Oscar run.

What else happened today…

Keke Palmer is a pilates girl now. I keep pilates in the mix, because it’s good to have different workouts to go to so you don’t get bored or discouraged, but honestly…just going on regular walks has been the biggest fitness boost for me recently. I make up-tempo playlists and walk at a steady but brisk pace for 30-40 minutes every day. Yoga this, pilates that, HIIT, core, barre, whatever. A daily walk has done more for my body and mind than anything. (Popsugar)

Just Andrew was released from custody. Still no mugshot, but the “trying to hide but I don’t understand how seats work” photo is also very good. Honestly, though, nothing says as much as the royals’ isolation from reality as Andrew’s complete inability to function in normal spaces. He doesn’t know how anything works. In any context. Ever. (Celebitchy)

The Pitt star Shawn Hatosy is back this week as Dr. Abbot, with a very “Hollywood action movie” return in the show. They’re definitely leaning into the online reaction to Abbot from season one, in which Hatosy was embraced as “that old man” the internet collectively decided to sexualize. He’s interviewed in Cultured, talking about his book preferences—he name checks Tim O’Brien, one of my favorite American writers—reading habits (like me, he doesn’t read new books), and talks the books he’d like to adapt, such as O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato. I would pay real human money to see an adaptation of Cacciato from Shawn Hatosy. He also talks about his very online habits, and offers a list of book recs. I will never stop saying it! Shawn Hatosy is a great dude, and I am happy he is winning! (Cultured)