Kristen Stewart feels 'haunted' by Princess Diana after playing her in biopic

Some roles stay with an actor long after the cameras stop rolling, a factKristen Stewartknows intimately.

TheChronology of Waterfilmmaker recently opened up about how she hasn't been able to let go of Princess Diana after playing her in the 2021 biopicSpencer. Directed byPablo Larraín, the film earned Stewart her first Academy Award nomination, for her performance as the late royal in asublimely surreal portraitof Diana navigating Christmas 1991 with the royal family as her marriage to the future King Charles dissolved.

In aninterview withThe Telegraphpublished Thursday, Stewart said she felt "haunted" by the late Princess of Wales. "I still am. I can't drive 'round this city, and Paris for that matter, without thinking about her," she added during the interview in London.

"All the love that poured out of this woman… I can cry about her at any moment," Stewart said of Diana, who died in 1997, at 36, after a car accident in the City of Light.

Stewart noted that Diana's experience of being hounded by the media resonated with her as someone who has had a famously tumultuous relationship with the press and the public's scrutiny of celebrity lives. It was that very "overlap in terms of our experience" that Stewart said attracted Larraín to her portraying Diana.

"She was plucked, plucked to death [by paparazzi]," Stewart said. "And her rebellious qualities felt so desperate, and so young and so vulnerable." She added that that level of attention "does kind of soul suck" and revealed that when filming wrapped, "I did feel a bit like a shell, and I think she did too. That was the point."

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The role was an understandably daunting one for Stewart, who confessed that she initially thought Larraín was crazy to cast her as Diana. "I told Pablo he was insane and he should probably hire someone else, but he refused to accept that," she toldThe Telegraph. "There were some massive distinctions between her and me. It was the statuesque thing. It was the eye color — I have green eyes; she has very famously blue eyes that match her ring. So I was like, 'Should we make the engagement ring green, then?'"

But as Stewart remembered, Larraín was adamant that it was more about "spirit."

Her performance would become one of Stewart's most acclaimed turns and signaled the beginning of her expanding her horizons as a Hollywood creative. Now, having recently made her feature directorial debut withThe Chronology of Water, Stewart is calling her own shots and making the big decisions.

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In aninterview with the U.K.'sTimeslate last month, Stewart admitted thatshe doesn't see herself working in the U.S. in the long termanymore. "I can't work freely there," she said. "But I don't want to give up completely. I'd like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people."

The comments were preceded by theTwilightalum discussing the tariffs PresidentDonald Trumphas said he plans to impose on the film industry, and how "terrifying" they are. "Reality is breaking completely under Trump," Stewart said. "But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in."

For Stewart, that means continuing to make movies. "It's how I relate to the world," she said. "I'm always going, 'How are we going to make that into a movie?'"

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This political thriller is shockingly 'resonant' amid Epstein scandal

We all think we know the story of "Oedipus," the guy who killed his dad and slept with his mom.

But if Robert Icke's pulse-pounding Broadway production is any indication, Sophocles' 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy still has the ability to shock.Lesley Manville, who costars with Mark Strong in the play,recently recalled to Stephen Colbertthe verbal reactions she hears from audiences as the political drama hurtles toward its dark, unsettling finale.

"It says something a bit sad about us as a culture, that a lot of us feel we have to pretend we know the story of Oedipus when we don't," Icke says. Sitting in the theater, "the way that people are gasping and knocked off their perch suggests that they can't have known the story. And that's OK! It doesn't always have to be that everyone has read every work of literature ever. God knows I haven't."

Icke's adaptation sets the action in present day, as politician Oedipus (Strong) and his wife, Jocasta (Manville), await the results of an election, which he's expected to win in a landslide. But anxiety sets in as they camp out in campaign headquarters with their grown children: First, as a blind intruder (Samuel Brewer) crashes the party and delivers a grim prophecy; and second, as Oedipus' mother (Anne Reid) delivers the startling news that she is not actually his biological mom.

Harrowing revelations about corrupt leaders, child rape and grooming come to the fore, and a stop-clock on the back wall counts down the minutes and seconds until the play's most paralyzing realization.

"These Greek myths are so powerful because they're so unflinching in terms of what they talk about," Icke says. "It's a story that reminds us that we don't really know ourselves, and that's the existential terror that these characters are in. The terrible cost of actually finding out who you are can really devastate you."

In writing this modern version of "Oedipus," Icke was largely inspired by the 2016 U.S. presidential election betweenDonald Trumpand former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As most Americans can recall, Clinton was widely expected to win going into the night.

The idea of her confined to one place, forced to reckon with the results, seemed to lend itself well to a play like "Oedipus."

"I remember there was a delay in Hillary making her concession speech," Icke says. Presumably, "she was in her hotel suite with Bill and her team and her advisers, and they were trying to work out what to do. I remember thinking, 'That's one of the rare moments for a global political figure where she really is stuck.' When she comes out, it's either going to be to concede or to challenge, but there's no avoiding that situation."

The Clintons have recently been in the headlines, as theyagreed to give depositions to a House committeeabout accusedlate sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Bill Clinton is among the political and business leaders who socialized with Epstein and showed up in the Epstein files. He isnot accused of wrongdoing, and the Clintons have they said had nothing to do with Epstein for more than 20 years.

Icke says that Epstein "wasn't a particularly huge story" when he first mounted this concept of "Oedipus" in Amsterdam in 2018.

"But obviously now, particularly for American audiences ‒ and with the news being what it is ‒ there's this monologue (in the play) that feels very resonant with that situation," Icke says. The former first lady recently came to see the show, "and I'd love to know what went through Hillary's mind as that story unfolded, in lots of different ways."

Icke has reimagined a multitude of classic dramas throughout his career, and will next stage "Romeo & Juliet" with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe in London's West End beginning next month. For the British writer and director, putting a new lens on old stories is part of the "glorious tradition" of theater.

"You look at the pleasure that people get out of 'Wicked,'" Icke says. " 'You know "The Wizard of Oz?" What if we look at it from here and maybe we'll see something completely different?' "

For him, "there's a healthy mixture of being entirely present in the now with what's happening in the world, but also acknowledging we're part of a continuum that connects us with an audience who sat in Athens to watch a play two-and-a-half thousand years ago. There's something amazing about that."

"Oedipus" is now playing through Feb. 8 at Studio 54 (254 W. 54thStreet).

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Chris Hemsworth worried how revealing his Alzheimer's risk would affect his career as a Marvel star

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Chris Hemsworthis opening up about his decision to reveal his heath risk.

TheThorstar learned that he hastwo copies of the gene APOE4, which has been linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's, as he was making his National Geographic documentary seriesLimitless With Chris Hemsworthin 2022. He estimates that his genetic makeup makes him eight to 10 times more likely to develop the disease later in life.

The actor recently reflected on how he thought going public with that information might affect his career.

"I wondered if I was letting people too far in," HemsworthtoldThe Guardian. "Are they no longer going to believe in the action star or the Marvel character? And do I want people to know my fears and insecurities to this level?"

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Hemsworth's father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, which prompted the actor to star in another National Geographic documentary,Chris Hemsworth: Road Trip to Remember, with him in 2025.  "It was so deeply personal," the actor said of the doc. "It was a love letter to my father. It empowered him for a period, and stimulated memories that were being taken away from him."

TheBlackhatstar added that strangers have talked to him about Alzheimer's since he released the documentaries. "People like to pretend it's not happening, because it's so uncomfortable for them, so you suffer in silence," he said. "People talk to you about the footy and the weather and stuff, and no one actually says, 'How are you doing? Are you scared? Are you afraid?'"

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Hemsworth slowed down the momentum of his acting career after his father was diagnosed.  "My appetite for racing forward has really been reined in," he explained. "I've become more aware of the fragility of things. You start thinking, 'My dad won't be here forever.' And my kids are now 11 and 13. Those nights where they'd fight over sleeping in our bed — suddenly they're not happening anymore."

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TheThorstarclarifiedthat his reduced screen presence wasn't connected to his own genetic testing in an interview withEntertainment Weeklyin 2023. "I decided to take some time off because I was exhausted, and I wanted to be home with my family," he said. "It was interesting, because those two headlines got coupled together, that I was taking time off because of the genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's."

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Hemsworth acknowledged thatLimitlessshifted his perspective on his life at the time. "That experience and that show made me go, 'Oh, wow, none of us are invincible,'" he recalled. "It kind of slams you into the moment. You start asking bigger questions, and you think, 'I need to slow down and just experience this moment now and not have the years race by.'"

"It was a positive in that sense, but it got a little overdramatized, like I was potentially retiring because of this thing," he added. "Which just isn't the case."

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Princess Marie of Denmark Reveals Whether Her Family Will Stay in the U.S. After Shocking Title Strip

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NEED TO KNOW

• Princess Marie of Denmark has shared a major update about her family's future plans

• Prince Joachim's wife clarified whether her family will continue living in the U.S., where they have resided since 2023

• Queen Margrethe stripped the royal titles of her son Joachim's kids in a shocking move three years ago

Princess Marieof Denmark has clarified her family's future plans about moving back to their home country after her children'sroyal titles were shockingly stripped.

On Feb. 5, Princess Marie revealed that she,Prince Joachimand their two children, Count Henrik, 16, and Countess Athena, 14, will move back to Denmark in 2027, relocating from the U.S., where they have lived since 2023.

Princess Marie made the revelation in a new interview with Danish outletBILLED-BLADET, published on the eve of her 50th birthday on Feb. 6. She confirmed to the paper that she, her husband and their kids will continue living in Washington, D.C. until Joachim's contract as defense industry attaché expires in August 2027.

"The most important thing for me and my family are the years that lie ahead of us. Right now, as you know, we are staying in the U.S. for another year and a half. Then the children can finish their schooling," Marie toldBILLED-BLADETin an interview at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen.

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"Henrik will finish high school, he will be 18, and then we will move back. Athena will start high school here in Denmark. I think Henrik will want to continue his studies right away, but we will have to see. He loves chemistry, physics and mathematics. But he has to work hard," the royal mom continued.

Princess Marie added that she was "looking forward to getting back to my work and my patronages. And getting back to Denmark," and that her family was too.

"We are really looking forward to it. It has been really exciting to be out of the country and be able to support Denmark abroad," she said about their stint in the U.S.

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Prince Joachim is the second son ofQueen Margretheand the father of four children. Joachim, 56, shares his two eldest sons, Count Nikolai, 26, and Count Felix, 23, with his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg. They divorced in 2005, and Joachim married Marie in 2008. The couple went on to welcome two children, Henrik and Athena.

In September 2022, Queen Margrethe announced plans to remove Joachim's children's prince and princess titles and "His/Her Highness" stylings they had held since birth. She later described the decision as "necessary future-proofing of the monarchy," and the change took effect on Jan. 1, 2023.

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Nikolai, Felix, Henrik and Athena retained their places in the line of succession to the throne and took on the lower-ranking titles of His Excellency Count of Monpezat or Her Excellency Countess of Monpezat. The sudden decision to strip their styling was criticized, and Joachimsaid they felt blindsided. However, he later seemed tosoften his stance and reflected, "We've moved on."

Queen Margrethe did not strip the titles of the children of her firstborn son, who is now known asKing Frederik. Queen Margrethe, 85,abdicated in January 2024, and Frederik became the new sovereign, making his eldest son the newCrown Prince Christian.

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Prince Joachim, Princess Marie, Count Henrik and Count Athena moved to Washington in the summer of 2023, relocating from Paris, where they had lived since 2020. Princess Marie was born and raised in Paris, and her family's U.S. move marked a fresh start after Henrik and Athena's Danish royal titles were removed.

Count Nikolai and Count Felix did not join their family in America when Prince Joachim took on a three-year job with the Danish Embassy under the Ministry of Defense.

Like Joachim and Marie, who have traveled back for a few royal events since their U.S. move, Nikolai and Felix continued supporting the crown by attending some royal functions, such as Queen Margrethe's 85th birthday celebrations in April 2025.

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In May, King Frederikbestowed his two elder nephews with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, awarding them with an honor interpreted as an olive branch after their princely titles were taken.

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The appointment welcomed Nikolai and Felix into an elite order of chivalry recognizing outstanding individuals for their service or contributions to Denmark.

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Chris Noth says he's glad his “And Just Like That” character was killed off: 'I was very lucky'

Key points

• Chris Noth says he was "very lucky" to be killed off on And Just Like That.

• The actor remains "very close friends" with his Sex and the City costar John Corbett.

• Noth also says he wished Kim Cattrall a happy birthday "a few months ago."

Chris Nothis glad Mr. Big met his end on that fateful Peloton.

TheSex and the Cityalumshared a candid responsewhen asked how he felt about leaving the HBO Max sequel seriesAnd Just Like Thatafter his character was killed off in the first episode.

"Very good. I think I was very lucky," he told theDaily Mailat the Blue Jacket Fashion Show in New York City on Wednesday.

Noth also told the outlet that he keeps in touch with one of hisSATCcostars. "John Corbett and I are very close friends," he said of the actor behind Aidan Shaw, who appeared on two seasons ofAnd Just Like That. "He's doing wonderful."

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Noth also shared the last time he interacted withKim Cattrall, who sat outAJLTaside from a brief cameo in the second season. "She's living in London, I think," Noth said. "I wished her a happy birthday a few months ago, that's about it."

The actor's shade towardAnd Just Like Thatcomes after a series of public criticisms of his longtimeSATCscene partnerSarah Jessica Parker, whom he said he hasn't spoken to since four womenaccused him of sexual assaultin 2021. Noth hasdenied all such allegations.

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Noth's bitter streakcame into viewafter Parker received the Carol Burnett Award at theGolden Globes' specialGolden Evetelevised ceremony in January. Noth shared an unrelated post on Instagram that showed him lifting weights. "F&@k new years - LETS GO!!!!" he wrote in his caption.

A commenter then turned his focus toward Parker. "You mean f‑‑‑ sjp & her award right? lol" the user wrote. Noth then responded, "Right."

Nothaddressed the commentin a subsequent post. "My off the cuff slightly sarcastic response to a comment on the internet seems to have caused a tempest in a teapot," the actorwrote. "It is not news. It is not worth all this discussion. It is a waste of time in a world where there are more important things to worry about."

The actortook aim at Parkerin aninterviewwithReally Famous With Kara Mayer Robinsonlater that month.

"We're not friends, I think that's pretty obvious," Noth said, citing Parker'sjoint statementwith Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis that condemned his alleged misconduct.

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"The statement that they put out — which was nothing more than brand management, really — I don't know, it was sad, it was disappointing, it was surprising, because you need to call me and hear my side of this," Noth said. "And you've known me for many years, and we've worked [together] for many years. And that didn't happen."

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The actor acknowledged that he understood the motivations to publicly side with his accusers. "I get it, that's more Hollywood than Hollywood," he said. "But before you make that statement, you know me, you've known me all these years, give me a call so I can give you the real scoop about this. And that didn't happen, and that was too bad."

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