In the first six episodes of Star Wars, British actor Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca - Han Solo's huge, furry friend. In the seventh episode, Mayhew also starred, but due to lack of mobility (the 71-year-old actor walks with a cane), the creators of The Force Awakens found him an understudy. It was the 29-year-old Finnish basketball player Joonas ...
Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher have donated a significant amount of money to charities that help Syrian refugees. The couple donated half a million dollars to Save the Children, an organization dedicated to protecting children's rights around the world. The fund's employees use the money...
Famous Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr., who spent 90 months in prison for various offenses in the 15s, has been exonerated by California Governor Jerry Brown. Downey Jr., who had problems with drugs, was included in the list of 91 rehabilitated Californians approved by the state leader ahead of Christmas. “It’s just that you’ll be on [Santa’s] naughty list if...
The great Soviet and Russian filmmaker Eldar Ryazanov died in a hospital in Moscow at the age of 88. Eldar Ryazanov has been in the hospital for the last week. When the director's condition worsened, doctors hooked him up to a ventilator. The state of the medical filmmaker ...
American actor of Japanese origin Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, known for several Hollywood films, decided to be baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church and become a citizen of Russia. "Brothers and sisters! I hasten to share my joy: the Light of Christ enlightens everyone! Cary Tagawa, who played a Japanese Orthodox Christian in our film “Priest-san”...
Hollywood actor Robert De Niro has announced his desire to obtain Russian citizenship. The Oscar and Golden Globe winner stated this at a press conference on the occasion of the opening of his restaurant in Moscow. Co-owner of the chain De Niro opened the first restaurant in the capital back in 2009. Project…
Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, with the help of social networks, returned the student card he found in Central Park in New York. The document belongs to a certain Lauren of Fordham University. Yesterday morning, Hans tweeted a photo of the student in his account, saying that he found it in the park and is ready to return it to the hostess. Among more than ten ...
Actor Sami Naseri, who is currently in St. Petersburg, where the new blockbuster is being filmed, told a Zvezda TV correspondent that he would gladly consider an offer to obtain a Russian passport. The 54-year-old French actor of Algerian descent, best known for starring in Taxi, ...
French actor Gerard Depardieu's plans do not include obtaining Belarusian citizenship, said the actor's spokesman Arnaud Friellet. According to him, the actor is in Belarus exclusively on work issues and will soon return to Russia. “He has Russian citizenship, French citizenship - and ...
French actor, restaurateur and businessman Gerard Depardieu, after selling his property, may go to Belarus, which he praised after a recent visit. The actor spoke about his plans in an interview with Le Figaro TV Magazine. “I think I’ll sell everything in France! I more…