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Nicole Kidman ("Big Little Lies") and Russell Crowe ("The Loudest Voice") discuss their latest TV roles in "Variety Studios: Actors on Actors" discussion. Crowe admits he once asked Jared Kushner (while at a party thrown by Hugh Jackman) for advice on how to play former Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes for the Showtime series. http://bit.ly/VarietySubscribe http://www.facebook.com/varietyhttp://www.instagram.com/varietyhttp://www.twitter.com/variety

Photo: Netflix TV ReviewsAll of our TV reviews in one convenient place. When rebooting a long-running TV show, there are certain rituals that have to be observed. Attempting to precisely re-create the original formula is tricky, and usually comes off as weak besides. But change too much, and suddenly you’re being accused of opportunistically slapping a beloved name onto a wholly unrelated property. For its part, Netflix has shown good faith by enlisting original creators Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove alongside Stranger Things’ Shawn Levy for its re-do of the true crime/paranormal documentary series Unsolved Mysteries. And while the changes Meurer and Cosgrove have made in updating the format for 2020 might not be to longtime fans’ tastes, they do bring the show in line with cur...

The entertainment industry has always had close ties with law enforcement, but with talent calling for a clean break, those bonds are more fraught than ever: "It's just standing up for what we all know is not correct." In the weeks leading up to June 23, Kendrick Sampson was sleeping at most five hours a night and marching in a Black Lives Matter protest every other day. At one rally in Los Angeles, he was hit by the police's rubber bullets multiple times. Undeterred, the actor best known for playing Issa Rae's love interest on HBO's Insecure crafted a letter addressed to Hollywood's power brokers: "We demand that Hollywood divest from police." With the help of Thor: Ragnarok's Tessa Thompson, he corralled a group of such A-listers as Michael B. Jordan, Viola Davis and Idris Elba...

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