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While his one-time onscreen love interest and fellow fledgling movie star Claire Danes was winning Emmys for Temple Grandin and Homeland, actor Jared Leto has been swanning around with crazy hair and silly makeup promoting his weird emo band 30 Seconds to Mars, doing nonsense like this. But now all that is over. Or at least on temporary suspension. You see, because Jared Leto has accepted his first film role in five years, playing "Rayon, a cross-dressing fellow AIDS patient" in the Matthew McConaughey drama Dallas Buyers Club. Apparently this is a pretty plum role, so it's a big deal for Leto, whose last gig was the futuristic sci-fi drama Mr. Nobody, which nobody saw despite it being Belgium's most expensive movie ever made. (True tale.) So welcome back, Mr. Leto. We trust you'll get a sensible haircut and take off that makeup before you, uh, put on wigs and makeup for work. O.K., fine, so this is basically the same thing, but you're pretending with this gig, at least. It's not you in the wild hair and garish makeup. It's someone else. [Deadline]
Another TV star turned movie actor, Mila Kunis, is returning to TV, but only as a producer. She's just signed a deal with The CW to executive produce a series called Meridian Hills, a drama about the women's lib movement set in 1972. So, uh... Mila, are you sure you, um, want to do this at The CW? Like, do you think that the future home of The Carrie Diaries is really the place where you want to develop a drama about women's liberation? Because, you know, that's a great and important topic and I'm sure with some tweaks you could get someone at HBO or Showtime or heck even Starz interested at least to some degree. Or AMC! Who knows. But The CW? I mean, have you watched shows on The CW? Some of them are entertaining, sure, but they're not exactly... complex, let's say. On an academic level, at least. So I'm just not sure this is the best fit. Maybe rethink this. Wait until after the election, hell, take the weekend, and let's maybe come up with some other options on Monday. The CW will be fine. I'm sure they have some sort of superhero fashion designer show lying around that they can plug the hole with. Don't worry about them and just focus on you. And, y'know, the women's movement. [Deadline]
