November 29, 2020
Mandy Moore discusses filming 'This is Us' while pregnant
This is Us star Mandy Moore is discussing her experience with filming the show while pregnant.
During Monday's episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, Moore, 36, laughed at how her real-life pregnancy didn't line up with her character's on the NBC series.
Moore is seven months pregnant with her first child, a son, with her husband, musician Taylor Goldsmith. On This is Us, Moore plays Rebecca Pearson, a wife and mother who was once expecting triplets with her husband, Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia).
On Late Night, Moore remarked on how the multiple timelines on This is Us made it impossible for her real-life pregnancy to perfectly match up with scenes of a pregnant Rebecca.
"It's funny because the trajectory of our show is, we sort of jump around in time all the time," Moore said. "In fact, the very first episode I was in, we sort of took it back to going to the hospital to give birth to the triplets that day."
"I was in like the full, heavy, eight-month prosthetic triplet belly and boobs and the whole thing," she recalled. "I'm like, 'Jeez Louise. Could we not postpone this for not just a few more months and I could help out a little bit myself with my own body?'"
"But of course, I think true to form, by the time I am waddling around at my most pregnant, we'll probably be shooting something where I'm supposed to be 25 and fresh-faced and getting married or something ridiculous," the star added. "So, just what I sort of come to expect from this job."
Earlier in the interview, Moore confirmed she watched YouTube videos of people giving birth to triplets to prepare for her role on This is Us.
"I've tried to actually forget the trauma that I endured watching those videos, because some of them are just downright terrifying," she said. "So yes, I'm very grateful I'm just having one child at a time."
Moore announced her pregnancy on Instagram in September.
"Baby Boy Goldsmith coming early 2021," she wrote.
Moore and Goldsmith, the frontman of the band Dawes, married in November 2018. The couple collaborated on Moore's 2020 album, Silver Linings, her first studio album in 11 years.
Moore released two holiday songs, the original song "How Could This Be Christmas?" and a cover of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," this month. On Late Night, Moore said recording the songs was a way to expend her creative energy during COVID-19.
Miley Cyrus sober again after COVID-19 pandemic setback
 Miley Cyrus is sober again after experiencing a setback during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 28-year-old singer and actress said Monday in an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music that she's two weeks sober following a relapse.
"Well, I, like a lot of people, being completely honest, during the pandemic fell off," Cyrus said, adding, "I fell off and I realized that I am now back on sobriety, two weeks sober, and I feel like I really accepted that time."
Cyrus said she isn't dwelling on her relapse and is focused on moving forward.
"One of the things I've used is, 'Don't get furious, get curious.' So don't be mad at yourself, but ask yourself, 'What happened?'" she said.
Cyrus said she doesn't think everyone should be sober and that "everyone has to do what is best for them."
"I don't have a problem with drinking. I have a problem with the decisions I make once I go past that level of ... Even into, I've just been wanting to wake up 100 percent, 100 percent of the time," the star said.
"I'm very disciplined. That's why it's never easy, but it's pretty easy for me to be sober or in and out of sobriety because it's like the day I don't want to [expletive] do it anymore, I don't. The day that I do, I do," she added.
Cyrus announced in an interview with Variety in June that she was six months sober. She started living a "sober lifestyle" after having vocal surgery in November 2019.
"At the beginning, it was just about this vocal surgery," Cyrus said. "But I had been thinking a lot about my mother. My mom was adopted, and I inherited some of the feelings she had, the abandonment feelings and wanting to prove that you're wanted and valuable."
"I did a lot of family history, which has a lot of addiction and mental health challenges," she added. "So just going through that and asking, 'Why am I the way that I am?' By understanding the past, we understand the present and the future much more clearly."
Cyrus will release her seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts, on Friday. The album features "Edge of Midnight," a mashup of Cyrus' "Midnight Sky" and Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen," and the song "Prisoner" featuring Dua Lipa.
Pete Davidson to lead cast of 'It's a Wonderful Life' table read
Pete Davidson will lead a star-studded table read of the holiday classic film It's a Wonderful Life.
The Ed Asner Family Center, a non-profit created by actor Ed Asner, said in a press release Tuesday that Davidson, 27, will play George Bailey in a virtual table read of It's a Wonderful Life in December.
Davidson joins Asner, Maude Apatow, Mia Farrow, Ellie Kemper, Carol Lane, Ed Begley, Jr., Diedrich Bader, Bill Pullman, Richard Kind. B.D. Wong and Michael Shannon. The event will take place Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. EST.
Proceeds will benefit the Ed Asner Family Center, which offers mental health and enrichment programs to special needs children and their families. Tickets are available now.
"We are so thrilled to have Pete reenact the role of George in It's a Wonderful Life with his talented wit and clever vocalizations. And we look forward to having Maude join the cast as Violet with her creative flair," Ed Asner Family Center co-founder Matthew Asner said.
Tom Bergeron will host the table read, which will be directed by Victor Nelli. The event will also honor Jeffrey Frost, president of Sony Pictures Television and an advocate for individuals with special needs.
It's a Wonderful Life opened in theaters in 1947. The film is directed by Frank Capra and stars James Stewart as George Bailey, Donna Reed as Mary Hatch and Henry Travers as Clarence.
It's a Wonderful Life follows George, a man contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve. His guardian angel, Clarence, intervenes and shows George how he has touched the life of others.
Davidson is an actor and comedian who stars on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He recently starred in the film The King of Staten Island, which was partially inspired by his life.
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