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‘Ponies’ Stars Vic Michaelis and Nicholas Podany Break Down That Mole Reveal and the Choice That Changes Everything for Season 2
[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Ponies.]
Summary
The Peacock spy thriller series Ponies, set in 1977 Moscow, follows Bea (Emilia Clarke) and Twila (Haley Lu Richardson), two women whose husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances that lead them to become CIA operatives. Bea’s ability to charm and speak fluent Russian is a perfect complement to Twila’s fearless nature and street smarts, but their lack of experience while they’re learning on the job puts them in precariously dangerous situations. And if they’re going to have any chance at survival, they have to be able to trust the lead of the CIA’s spy division, Dane Walter (Adrian Lester), and his team.
As a member of that team, Ray Szymanski (Nicholas Podany) is Dane’s right-hand man while his wife Cheryl (Vic Michaelis) is a secretary for Shep (Andrew Richardson) at the embassy. But when Cheryl kills the nanny and is revealed to actually be the mole that everyone has been trying to hunt down, chaos and fire erupt at the CIA. What comes next will make for a very interesting Season 2, and I know my fingers are crossed that we’ll be hearing about a greenlight soon.
During this interview with Collider, Michaelis (Dropout TV, Very Important People) and Podany discussed their reactions to the way the season played out, how they view Ray and Cheryl’s marriage, getting to improvise and explore their characters together, that rooting for Cheryl’s success at villainy is just the most fun option, killing Eevi (Clare Hughes), how Ray might react to learning the truth about Cheryl, wanting to get out in the field more, what all of this could mean for a possible Season 2, and their most memorable moments with Clarke and Richardson. Michaelis also talked about whether Twila, Bea or Cheryl would make the best guest on Very Important People, and whether they tortured any of your castmates on set as much as Sam Reich.
Collider: First of all, congratulations on the series. It’s getting a lot of buzz and people, including myself, are hoping for a Season 2. If at all possible, I want to will that into existence, after the way the season ended.
VIC MICHAELIS: I so appreciate you saying that. We’re really hoping so. Every little bit of goodwill into the universe helps.
You can’t leave it there. It’s just not fair. That would just be rude, if you left it there.
MICHAELIS and NICHOLAS PODANY: (Both laugh)
Vic Michaelis Screamed on the Plane Trip To Shoot in Hungary While Reading the ‘Ponies’ Finale Script
“Truly, it was such a shock.”
Did you guys go into this knowing the full arc for your characters? How much did you know about where all of this was heading? Do you feel like you had any sense of where it would end up?
MICHAELIS: I signed on very late for this, so I got the scripts on the plane on the way to Hungary to begin filming. I was somewhere over the ocean, getting through the end of episode eight, and I screamed on the plane. Truly, it was such a shock, in the best possible way. It’s an absolute dream character for me to get to come in and be a little bit mean, but then also have a little bit of dramatic stuff to get to do and then also be the villain. It’s so fun.
PODANY: What’s amazing about that is just the fact that you found out that soon to filming. If you just watch the series back a second time and you watch Vic’s performance, you can see it. It’s brilliant. It’s so good on a second watch of going back through and going, “Aha!”
MICHAELIS: That’s really kind, but that’s the writing. Everything is there in the character already. It does logically make sense.
PODANY: A friend pointed out to me that you don’t like music. You say it gives you a headache when I turn it on because you don’t want music playing.
MICHAELIS: Yeah.
PODANY: My friend pointed that out to me.
MICHAELIS: I was so mad about the concert. I wanted to go to the concert.
PODANY: Yeah, it’s crazy.
Two unlikely spies navigate danger and betrayal in this wild ’70s-era series.
Vic, you’ve previously talked about how you think Cheryl thinks of herself as somebody that is powerful and holds weight in the world and has value to the people around her, but that that’s also not true. She sees herself in a way that doesn’t match her reality. How do you think she views who she is in her marriage?
MICHAELIS: I think she views herself as a literal perfect wife who has done absolutely everything and gone above and beyond for what she is expected to do, especially in Moscow, where you can’t go to the salon and none of those things are accessible to you. She’s in new outfits all the time, and I think she views that as her wifely duty. I really think that she thinks that a lot of being a wife is about the aesthetic and doing the wifely duties, and I think she performs those exactly as expected. She fills and checks every single box with her little gel pen. It’s that space between realizing that there are other things that you can’t necessarily quantify that go into a relationship and realizing that you have to continue building, and you have to earn those things. A lot of that space is where the current unhappiness is coming from, from Cheryl’s perspective. I’d be so curious what you think, Nick, on that.
PODANY: I think we, as a marriage, are so comfortable in the arguments and in the disagreements. That’s how life works and that’s how our marriage is. I would so much rather be content in that than rock the boat and risk any kind of discomfort in my personal life, especially because Ray’s job is so deeply uncomfortable for who he is, as a person. I think having a very stable place to come home is the only thing he wants. If it’s Cheryl being mad at him all the time, then that’s what it is and that’s okay by him. I think he’s a very lost guy who needs to stay present and in the situation he’s in. Otherwise, the entire Jenga tower would just topple, and that would be that.
‘Ponies’ Co-Stars Nicholas Podany and Vic Michaelis Believe That Ray and Cheryl Really Do Love Each Other
“There is some love liquid there, underneath it all.”
What did the two of you most enjoy about finding and exploring the relationship between your characters? What was the best part of having each other to find that with?
PODANY: When I first read this, I was like, “How will this character ever work?,” in terms of Cheryl. This person doesn’t really seem to have a redeeming quality.” And then, at the first table read, it immediately clicked. I was like, “Oh, my God, she’s an icon. She’s a housewife diva. You root for her and her and her antics and her feeling of being unjustly treated.” And so, the very first day that we were shooting at the Christmas party, just immediately Vic went into improv. They were like, “Okay, just improv your way into the scene,” and every single take was a brand-new way to get under Ray’s skin and to devalue the romantics of the relationship. It was amazing because all I needed to do was just smile and laugh. It was this brilliant thing that Vic brought to the character and to the set. Oh, my God, it was all them. It was insane.
MICHAELIS: No, that’s not true at all, but that’s so kind. [We] had a conversation really early on that I think was really informative and will be the base moving forward. I think these two do love each other. They’re just so lost as to how to communicate that to each other anymore. It’s that status quo and that being the most important thing, but if you really were to strip all that away, there is a base that’s green and boiling. There is some love liquid there, underneath it all, that is beautiful.
PODANY: Give them therapy for five years and they’ll figure it out. There are moments in the show where we get to show that. They’re fleeting, but those were my favorite scenes.
MICHAELIS: It was great. It was awesome.
Creators Susanna Fogel and David Iserson unpack the finale’s biggest gut-punches, Bea and Twila’s new leverage, and why trust gets messier.
Vic, to get a little silly for a minute, would you want Twila, Bea, or Cheryl on Very Important People, and who do you think would be the best?
MICHAELIS: Oh, okay. That is really tricky. We’re talking the characters? The character is getting in hair and makeup as another character. Cheryl would try the hardest, that’s for sure. But Cheryl would also be really concerned about doing it wrong, in my opinion. So then, that leaves Bea and Twila. Nick, what do you think, gut reaction?
PODANY: Cheryl.
MICHAELIS: No, not Cheryl. Cheryl, I genuinely think, would be an untenable guest. She’d get on set and be like, “I’m not putting that on my face. There’s not a chance.” She would refuse to cooperate. I think Twila, in the opposite direction, would have some of that because she wouldn’t care enough. So, I think that maybe leaves Bea. I think Bea would earnestly be a quiet hitter. A homerun, but it’s so quiet.
Vic, did you torture any of your castmates on set as much as you torture Sam Reich?
MICHAELIS: I’d constantly set traps for people on set. They’d be like, “Let me out of the tree” and I’d say, “No. Not until you give me a dollar.” It was really fun though. Everybody was so wonderful and so sweet. It’s such a cliche, but we really had such a good time. We sang a lot of karaoke. Nick, at one point, set up a live band karaoke for us, where he just learned a bunch of music in a week. There’s a band in episode four at the party, and that band turned into a real band.
PODANY: I got this band of these great Hungarian musicians to come to this club, and I got submissions from the entire cast and crew of songs that they wanted to sing and we set up a band. We literally had the best time.
MICHAELIS: It was great. It was amazing.
‘Ponies’ Star Vic Michaelis Thinks It’s Fun To Root for the Villain
“It was so fun.”
Everything really comes crashing down in the finale. One of the biggest questions this season, with who is the mole, is answered and we learn that it’s Cheryl. Vic, how did you feel about Cheryl having the tracking device taken into the vault to then have it explode and destroy all that evidence? When your character does something like that, do you cheer on their creativity or do you want to scold them for their bad choices?
MICHAELIS: It’s so curious. I have my own ideas, obviously, of how Cheryl ended up in this situation. From a person that is closely tied to this character and is, of course, having to root for their success because it is the most fun option in this situation, it was a ballet. By the time that device gets into the ambassador’s hands, all of a sudden, Cheryl can start showing emotion because it’s like, “I did it! Oh, my God, I did it! Here we go. Can you even believe it?” Personally, I think it’s kind of fun to root for a villain, especially in a situation like that. It’s so fun. Make more fun TV. I love this. It was so fun. It was so good.
Were you surprised that Cheryl actually killed the nanny? Do you think she knows more about the nanny than she’s saying? Was it just instinct? Was it a loose end? How did you rationalize that?
MICHAELIS: (Creators) David [Iserson] and Susanna [Fogel] have gone on record saying that they’ve left it ambiguous. But I think Cheryl kills the nanny, at the end of the day, for the family. I think that legitimately is the motivation there is because now, at this point, it is like looking down the barrel. I do think Eevi staying alive messes up her son and her husband and her life. I think she kills Eevi because if Eevi wakes up and starts talking, and they find out that Eevi was not the mole, that then can affect Cheryl’s family, and I think that is a motivation worth killing for.
The wife of the great khal has another husband to mourn.
Nick, at the end of the season, the CIA isn’t aware of who the mole is. Even Ray is unaware that it’s Cheryl. How will that affect things? How do you think he’ll feel about that? What do you want to see with him in Season 2?
PODANY: I think he spent the entire season being very stubborn to his own moral compass. I think he knows exactly who he’s loyal to. I think he knows exactly what this job means to him and what his family means to him. He’s got a list of people he trusts. And then, the rest of the world, no, but that list is stuck in his brain forever. For the rest of the characters, in this whole thing, we learn that the technique of being a spy always gets you in trouble, and yet Ray has lived with it and thrived on it for a long time. Given that he’s an analyst in the CIA, he’s not usually boots on the ground. He’s able to distance himself. So, it would be really cool to see him thrown into the middle of the action and learning that trust gets you in some real hot water in this kind of world. I’m really excited to see how his kindly manner will mix with that information.
The ‘Ponies’ Set Embraced a Vibe of Fun and Joy While the Cast Got To Play and Shake Things Up
“I adore every person in this cast.”
Aside from working with each other, you’re also sharing scenes with Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson. Do you guys each have a favorite moment or scene that you had with one of them from the season?
PODANY: The bubble, where it’s me, Adrian [Lester], Emilia and Haley, was the crew’s least favorite place to film because we wouldn’t be able to get through a scene. We’d just start laughing. It was really hard to get through sequences because the four of us would just have giggle fits all the time. I adore every person in this cast because of their work ethic, but also just this incredible capacity for fun and joy. I think trying to stifle creativity by making something really serious and really hard-framed and where you know exactly what you’re going to do in every take just completely stifles the joy and ultimately the beauty of the project. And so, my favorite thing about working with them was just the ability to fuck with things and have a great time doing it.
MICHAELIS: I love that. I didn’t know we could cuss. There we go. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I didn’t have a place for it, I just wanted to do it to make sure that was on record.
PODANY: I’m a pretty cool guy. I swear sometimes.
MICHAELIS: I didn’t know, but now I know. There you go. My favorite scene is also the first one that we filmed. It was me, Haley, and Tom [Stourton], who played George. In the second episode, we’re at this discotheque and we’re literally pushing through fog and into the discotheque, and Haley just leans over to me and goes, “This is a movie.” I feel like when you’re an actor, before you ever step on set, you have a dream of what filming a movie is going to be like and it’s often like you’re living in the final product that you’re seeing. And that was a moment where it really was like, “Oh, yeah, we are literally experiencing filming and simultaneously living a movie right now.” It really was absolutely crazy, walking through all this fog with all these characters pushing through, and then being in this bustling discotheque. And they actually had the sound on for the first little bit, so that way we could get the feel for it. A little movie magic, they don’t often have the sound on when they’re playing music, so that you can hear dialogue and stuff like that. It was incredible. It was crazy.
- Release Date
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January 15, 2026
- Network
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Peacock
- Directors
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Ally Pankiw, Susanna Fogel, Viet Nguyen
- Writers
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Carolyn Cicalese, Susanna Fogel, David Iserson, Adrian Lester, Emilia Clarke, Haley Lu Richardson, Jordan J. Riggs, Rosa Handelman
Ponies is available to stream on Peacock.
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Kansas City Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt is preparing to walk down the wedding aisle after announcing her engagement to boyfriend Derek Green.
“It was always you,” Hunt, 27, wrote via a joint Instagram post shared on Saturday, April 4, announcing their engagement alongside a slew of photos featuring Green, 26, and the pair — including her now fiancé on one knee — during the monumental moment.
Hunt could be seen wearing a floor-length, sleeveless white dress for the special occasion, while Green decided to wear a dapper light gray suit. The pair, who enjoyed an outdoor proposal at an altar decorated adorned with white flowers and matching candles, were also pictured holding hands after Hunt said “yes.”
While the proposal itself appeared to be an intimate affair — complete with a show-stopping emerald-cut engagement ring encrusted with white diamonds and an emerald stone — the newly-engaged pair were later joined with some of their most nearest and dearest to celebrate their impending nuptials.
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Hunt’s father, Clark Hunt, as well as her mom, Tavia Hunt, were in attendance, in addition to Green’s parents, Trent Green and Julie Green.
Gracie and Green — who hard-launched their relationship in May 2025 — have been “friends since 2017,” according to the heiress. (Gracie is a member of one of the wealthiest families in the United States, with a net worth reportedly valued at around $3 billion, according to Sports Illustrated.)
In July 2025, Gracie revealed she was “dating my best friend” via an Instagram post featuring Kansas City Chiefs WAG and pop superstar Taylor Swift’s hit song “You Belong With Me.” (Swift, for her part, famously got engaged to Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in August of that same year.)
Prior to the pair’s social media debut, Gracie teased her relationship in an April 2025 Instagram video that she since-deleted.
“After meeting 7.5 years ago in this place… all along there was some invisible string,” she reportedly wrote over the video, according to the New York Post. In the deleted video, Gracie was reportedly seen wrapping her arms around Green, whose identity remained a mystery at the time as Gracie declined to publicly reveal his name.
Green responded to the pair’s engagement announcement, writing in the comments section, “FOREVER AND EVER” along with two red heart emojis.
Plenty of A-list friends also shared their congratulations in the comments section.
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“Awwww congrats,” sports reporter and TV personality Erin Andrews commented.
“Congratulations! And also, CALLED IT!!!” actor Eric Stonestreet wrote.
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Josh Dallas reunited with Manifest‘s Melissa Roxburgh but would he consider working with her again — except this time on Justin Hartley‘s hit series Tracker?
Dallas and Roxburgh shared the screen in the neatest episode of NBC’s The Hunting Party, which the actress has starred in since 2025. She also appears as Hartley’s onscreen sister on CBS’ Tracker, which Dallas is a fan of as well.
“100 percent. I’d love if Justin would have me,” Dallas exclusively told Us Weekly during a joint interview. “I’d be there in a second.”
Tracker, which premiered in February 2024, is centered around a survivalist named Colter (Hartley) who travels the country helping to solve a variety of mysteries. Hartley’s role as an executive producer has allowed him to surprise viewers with exciting guest stars such as Roxburgh, Sofia Pernas, Jensen Ackles, Jennifer Morrison and more.
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Despite introducing Roxburgh as Colter’s sister, Dory, and Ackles as Colter’s brother, Russell, it remained unclear whether the Shaw siblings could reunite again. By the time production on season 2 started, Ackles booked several other roles while Roxburgh became the lead on NBC’s The Hunting Party.
“I had so much fun on that show,” Roxburgh told Us in February 2025. “Justin is great. It’s such a lovely and warm set [because] Justin does such a good job of making it that way. So I’d love to go back. Justin is a friend and it’s nice to play with your friends and I love the show, so we’ll see.”
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For now, Roxburgh is focused on her show, which has found even more success after streaming on Netflix.
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The Hunting Party airs on NBC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.
The stars donned their Sunday best and celebrated Easter 2026 in style.
“Happy Easter everyone!!! Mummy went all out this year and made sure the Easter bunny was really good to Sidney because he has been such a good boy this year,” Kelly Osbourne wrote via Instagram on Sunday, April 5. “I have [planned] such a special day for him.”
Osbourne, who shares her son with ex Sid Wilson, organized a special Easter egg hunt for Sidney in their backyard before enjoying a boat ride on a lake.
Mariah Carey, for her part, rang in the festive holiday with her kids.
“Happy Easter!” Carey, who shares Moroccan and Monroe with ex Nick Cannon, wrote alongside a pic of her kids meeting a costumed Easter bunny.
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Scottie Scheffler and his wife, Meredith Scudder, welcomed a second baby boy into their family — and what better place to make the announcement than the iconic Masters Tournament?
Scheffler introduced his 9-day-old son, Remy, to the Augusta National crowd ahead of the coveted tournament, according to a Sunday, April 5, report from Associated Press golf writer Doug Ferguson.
The Masters is scheduled to run from Thursday, April 9 until Sunday, April 12.
“Another boy for the Schefflers (Remy),” Ferguson posted via X. “The little fella is 9 days old and already at the Masters.”
After winning his second consecutive Memorial Tournament, Scottie Scheffler had a sentimental — and potentially smelly — celebration. Scheffler, 28, took home the Memorial title at the Muirfield Village Country Club in Dublin, Ohio, on Sunday, June 1, joining Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back champions in the event’s history. In the euphoric aftermath, Scheffer’s […]
Scheffler, 29, told the Associated Press that Remy was born on March 27.
“We just liked it,” Scheffler said about his newborn son’s name. “We didn’t have very many good boy names, to be honest with you.”
He and Scudder also have another son, Bennett, who was born in May 2024. Bennett was born just weeks after Scheffler won his second Masters tournament.
Scottie Scheffler with his wife, Meredith, and son Bennett, after winning The 2026 American Express Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images
At the end of March, the World No. 1 golfer abruptly withdrew from the Houston Open tournament due to the imminent birth of his son. Now that Remy has officially been welcomed into the fold, Scheffler is expected to return to the tee box in time to compete for another Masters title.
He told the AP that, despite having some time off over the last few weeks, he’s found ways to stay sharp.
“I’ve been practicing,” Scheffler said. “I’ve been able to do a good amount at home.”
Scottie Scheffler has given credit to wife Meredith Scheffler throughout his golf career. The couple met when they were teenagers attending Highland Park High School in Texas and then exchanged vows in December 2020. In April 2022, Meredith caddied for her husband during the Par 3 Contest ahead of the 86th Masters Tournament at Augusta […]
According to the Associated Press, the last player to win the Masters after having three weeks off is Adam Scott, who won the tournament in 2013.
Scheffler has separated his personal life with his golf life, but has spoken on the importance of being a dad.
“I love being a father,” he said in June 2025. “I love being able to take care of my son. I love being able to provide for my family out here playing golf. Every day when I wake up early to go put in the work, my wife thanks me for going out and working so hard.”
He continued, “When I get home, I try and thank her every day for taking care of our son. It’s why I talk about family being my priority, because it really is. I’m blessed to be able to come out here and play golf. But if golf ever started affecting my home life or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or with my son, that’s going to be the last day that I play out here for a living.”
President Donald Trump signed a second executive order in an attempt to “fix” college sports — this one coming on the heels of the biggest weekend of the year for NCAA basketball.
The White House announced on Friday, April 3, that the latest executive order is focused on transfer and eligibility rules for college athletes, potentially limiting how those athletes can be compensated for their name, image and likeness (NIL).
The order also creates policies that prevent schools from cutting scholarships or other opportunities for women’s and Olympic sports in order to pay their athletes.
Schools that violate the executive order could face financial penalties from the federal government.
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Whether or not the new executive order is legal is still up for debate.
The order comes just under a month after Trump hosted a college sports roundtable, which included more than 50 people in politics, business, and college and professional sports discussing the future of college athletics.
During that meeting, Trump promised to sign an executive order “because that’s the only way this is going to be solved.”
“So I’m going to sit down, and I’m going to write an executive order based on many of the sentiments made [at the meeting], many of the sentiments I’ve been hearing over the last year about what a disaster this is for colleges, the players, the families, ruining families, ruining everything,” Trump said at the time.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable to “save college sports” on March 6 Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images
Friday’s executive order limits athletes to one unrestricted transfer as an undergraduate student, as well as college eligibility to five years. It would not take effect until August 1.
“College sports cannot function without clear, agreed-upon rules concerning pay-for-play and player eligibility that can’t be endlessly challenged in court, as is the case now,” the White House said in a Friday news release regarding the order.
Multiple lawyers and college sports experts who spoke to ESPN said they believe the executive order will be deemed unconstitutional and unenforceable if – or when – it is challenged in court.
Even Trump himself — during that March meeting with college sports executives — admitted that his administration would likely be sued over the order.
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It’s not the first time Trump has used the threat of pulling federal funding from colleges as a so-called negotiating tactic. In September, he threatened to withhold funds from Harvard University, but a federal judge deemed the order illegal.
Despite the questions of the order’s legality and enforceability, multiple NCAA conferences have released statements in support of the order, including the Big Ten.
“The Big Ten Conference would like to thank President Trump for his leadership and continuing efforts to protect college athletics and joins him in urging Congress to quickly pass legislation addressing the critical issues undermining its long-term stability,” said Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti in a Friday statement.
He continued, “Consistent with President Trump’s executive order, the bipartisan SCORE Act thoughtfully addresses name, image, and likeness for student-athletes, protecting academic and athletic opportunities provided through women’s and Olympic sports programs, and expands resources to support student-athletes on and off the field. We will continue to work with a broad coalition of college sports stakeholders and members of Congress to enact this legislation.”
Rumer Willis is pulling back the curtain on the realities of breastfeeding a toddler — and addressing those who disagree in the process.
“When someone starts judging my parenting,” Willis, 37, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, April 4, over a video of the proud mom breastfeeding her nearly 3-year-old daughter, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis.
In the video, Willis can be seen holding her child in her arms and stroking her hair while she nurses. (Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, shares daughter Lou with her ex boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas.)
The video then abruptly cuts to a woman in front of a white board, drawing two circles to signify “my business” and “your business.”
“This is my business. And this is yours. I am here,” the woman says, marking an “X” inside one circle. “The problem is, you are also here, when you need to be here.”
The women, who drew another x inside the same “my business circle,” then drew a line and arrow to the empty circle — in other words, people need to stay out of “my business” and solely inside their own.
While the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends moms breastfeed up to the second year of their child’s life — while also incorporating other necessary nutrients, including solid foods and other fluids when age-appropriate — moms are often judged, shamed and ridiculed for openly breastfeeding their infants and children.
In 2019, Coco Austin hit back at critics after they shamed her for breastfeeding her and Ice-T’s daughter, Chanel, when she was nearly 4. (Austin, 47, breastfed her daughter until age 6.)
“[You] need to have a baby to understand it,” the actress exclusively told Us Weekly at the time, days after she shared a candid breastfeeding photo via social media.
“What I think confuses people is they saw the picture and they think Chanel doesn’t eat food,” Ice-T (real name Tracy Lauren Marrow) added in defense of Austin. “And she eats cheeseburgers. She only breastfeeds … like, when she cries [and] she just wants to get close to her mama. She throws the boob out and … holds on. She’s not doing it for nourishment. This chick eats chili fries, OK?”
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Austin further explained that her decision to continue to breastfeed her daughter well into toddlerhood wasn’t just about nutrition, but about love.
“It’s about giving love to your child and bonding with your child and also giving them good nutrition,” she explained to Us. “Beast milk is like liquid gold. All around, it’s a good thing.”
Brandi Glanville is sharing her reaction to LeAnn Rimes‘ jaw release therapy video that went viral, giving fans a candid glimpse into her thoughts. The two women have a long history, with Eddie Cibrian, Glanville’s ex-husband, leaving her for the country crooner. Glanville’s response adds another entertaining moment to their long-standing public history.
Brandi Glanville Wonders Why The Singer Shared The Video
On March 29, holistic wellness company Human Garage posted an Instagram video of Rimes undergoing deep jaw release therapy, wherein the singer was left in an emotional mess after the process.
Several days later, Glanville talked about the viral video on her podcast, “Unfiltered,” sharing her reaction. “I don’t understand why I saw it,” she told her co-host, James Maas, that she’s had the same procedure done “a million times” for her TMJ disorder, which causes jaw pain and headaches.
The “Real Housewives” alum admitted that the process was “very painful,” but said that she has a high threshold of pain. Maas said that Rimes looked happy and relieved afterward, to which Glanville asked, “I just don’t know why you share that.”
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Rimes has been open about her dental problems, which she said began in her teens after she received veneers. The deep jaw release therapy may have been part of the singer’s wellness journey, as she also underwent an expensive treatment to “clear micro-toxins” after her teeth fell out during a concert, as reported by PEOPLE.
“She’s sharing all of her health journey at the moment,” Maas told Glanville. After a pause, Glanville said, “Oh, like me.” With a shrug, she added, “So weird.” Maas chose not to comment on his co-host’s statement, instead saying, “And I’m staying right out of that one.”
“Well, I hope she feels better. Um, yeah… and yeah. That was that on that,” Glanville said before moving on to another topic.
Brandi Glanville And LeAnn Rimes’ History
Glanville and Rimes have a rocky history. The former was married to Eddie Cibrian from 2001 until 2009, when they announced their separation. Cibrian admitted to having an affair with Rimes while they worked on a movie together, and they married in 2011.
In an op-ed she wrote for The Sun in 2021, Glanville looked back at that difficult moment. “It was so public. Everyone felt sorry for me and wanted to hug me. But I wanted to punch everyone in the face. I couldn’t turn on the TV without seeing something about them. LeAnn had taken over my life and I didn’t have a voice any more,” she wrote.
It took years, but the reality TV star said she eventually forgave Rimes. “She’s great and we all hang out together. I’ve forgiven her. We’re going to be around each other for ever because of the kids, so why not make the best of it?” she wrote then.
Glanville On Co-Parenting With Her Ex And His Wife
Since burying the hatchet, Glanville said that she and Rimes get on better, at one point even describing their relationship as “like sister wives.” She and Cibrian share two sons together, 22-year-old Mason and 18-year-old Jake.
What opened Glanville’s heart to forgiveness was when their sons said that they just wanted “everyone to get along.” The reality star revealed, “Eddie and I still squabble, but it’s like the three of us are doing the parenting – it’s nice to have a third person and she’s usually on my side.”
They still experience hiccups, however, as Glanville revealed in 2025 that she had a big fight with Cibrian about their younger son’s 18th birthday celebration, which she said she wasn’t invited to. “I wasn’t invited to my own son’s birthday party. LeAnn’s his wife, she takes his side. I texted her about something else, but she didn’t reply,” Glanville shared.
Brandi Glanville Remains Single
Glanville has remained single since her divorce from Cibrian. She dated on and off over the years, but she largely focused on her career and health. As previously reported by The Blast, she underwent life-saving surgery to fix the cause of her years-long health issue.
For years, Glanville didn’t know what was causing the lumps on her face and neck, as well as joint pain. It was eventually discovered that her ruptured breast implant was the problem. Her health has drastically improved after the surgery, and it seems she’s ready to find love again.
Amid the Taylor Frankie Paul fiasco, the 53-year-old tweeted, “Now that I’m all better I think it’s time for me to embrace my age & become the golden bachelorette. I have no rap sheet & no domestic violence charges,” shading Paul.
Nothing beats a good thriller for an adrenaline rush. Over the years, the genre has continually evolved. Whether it’s classic staples like The Silence of the Lambs or more recent whodunits like Knives Out, thrillers give audiences something to latch onto as they follow the lead character working to crack the case. However, a great thriller isn’t necessarily about the case itself.
Blood, weapons, and victims aside, a thriller is a study of human behavior. It’s not every day people are haunted by murder. These situations prompt characters to take on the most questionable choices, which typically result in an unsavory consequence. Although many thrillers have found success on screen, some deserve far more attention in today’s discourse. Without further ado, here are 10 relentless thriller movies that no one remembers today.
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‘The Chaser’ (2008)
A disgraced ex-detective turned pimp, Eom Joong-ho (Kim Yoon-seok), finds himself in a race against time when one of his women disappears after meeting a suspicious client. With more and more of his girls going missing, Joong-ho is pushed deeper into financial trouble. Little does he know that a psychotic killer is on the loose.
There’s a reason why it’s called The Chaser. Given only 12 hours, Joong-ho scrambles to find anything that could put the suspect behind bars. All while this is happening, the suspect waits eerily calm in custody. What makes the film all the more biting is how Joong-ho ends up outpacing the actual police, who are too caught up in bureaucracy to do their job.
2
‘Prisoners’ (2013)
After a Thanksgiving dinner, six-year-old Anna Dover (Erin Gerasimovich) and her friend Joy Birch (Kyla-Drew Simmons) vanish. Suspecting Alex Jones (Paul Dano), a mentally impaired RV owner briefly detained and released, father Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) abducts and tortures him for answers. As Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) tracks hidden leads, he learns that Alex might not be the one responsible.
Jackman is arguably most famous for his role as Wolverine in the MCU. While the superhero is already a stern character, few could expect the level of intensity Jackman delivers in Prisoners. Unlike a cop chasing after victims, a father searching for his missing children is a different kind of desperation — one that pushes Keller to break the law in pursuit of justice.
3
‘Michael Clayton’ (2007)
Michael Clayton (George Clooney), a burned-out “fixer” for a powerful New York law firm, is sent to contain a crisis when star litigator Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) suffers a breakdown during a $3 billion lawsuit against agrochemical giant U-North. As Arthur insists the company is guilty, Clayton discovers a corporate cover-up and a pool of debt. Unfortunately, he’s got bigger problems ahead.
Michael Clayton is a story of maintaining integrity in one of the most corrupt institutions: corporate America. Clayton himself is no innocent man, as he has a history of doing everything from shoplifting to bending congressmen to get what he wants. But if there’s anything Clayton refuses to be, it’s a scapegoat.
4
‘The Pledge’ (2001)
On the eve of retirement, detective Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) vows to a grieving mother he’ll catch her daughter’s killer. Linking similar murders of young blonde girls, he buys a remote gas station to stake out a suspect — a man in a black station wagon called “the wizard.” As he forms a bond with a local girl, he ultimately uses her to bait the killer.
At the core of The Pledge is a detective’s final promise. That promise determines whether Jerry can truly leave his life in law enforcement behind. Although the film revolves around finding a killer, it is ultimately about the weight of a moral obligation. Failure to fulfill it will undo everything he has worked for over the years leading up to his retirement.
5
‘Tell No One’ (2006)
Eight years after his wife Margot’s brutal murder, pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) becomes a suspect again when two bodies are found near the original crime scene. On the same day, he receives a video showing Margot alive, with a warning to tell no one. As police close in, Alexandre goes on the run, following secret messages that lead him to a staged death.
Tell No One has a premise similar to Netflix’s His & Hers, in the sense that everyone is keeping secrets from each other. There are many versions of the truth, and each is delivered convincingly. What’s painful is that most of the people involved are victims of the elite, who think they can control anyone they want — until they are bloodily proven otherwise.
6
‘Frailty’ (2001)
A man named Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) approaches FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe), claiming his brother Adam is the “God’s Hand” killer. As told through flashbacks, he recounts a childhood shaped by their father’s belief that he was chosen to kill demons disguised as humans. As Fenton leads Doyle to buried bodies, they learn what’s actually going on behind their father’s “visions.”
Frailty stands out thanks to its use of religious imagery, offering something that feels refreshingly unsettling in the thriller genre. Basing one’s murderous intentions on a sign from “God” can be a touch too blasphemous for audiences, but the risk pays off. Although Frailty takes it to extremes with the concept of being divinely instructed to kill, religious fanaticism is not unheard of.
7
‘A Simple Plan’ (1998)
Hank (Bill Paxton), his dim-witted brother Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton), and their friend Lou (Brent Briscoe) discover a crashed plane containing $4.4 million of what is likely drug money. Hank insists on hiding it until authorities find the wreck. With encouragement from his manipulative wife, Sarah (Bridget Fonda), mistrust grows. After Jacob impulsively kills a passing neighbor, the plan escalates into violence as the FBI pursues an investigation.
They say money is a good servant but a bad master, and that idea plays out clearly in A Simple Plan. The film observes how the bond between three close men begins to dissolve once a large sum of money quite literally falls at their feet, pushing them to betray one another. With $4.4 million, it seems like there’s much to share, but some people just want everything to themselves.
8
‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ (2009)
Retired Argentine investigator Benjamín Espósito (Ricardo Darín) revisits the 1970s rape and murder of Liliana Coloto (Carla Quevedo) while writing a novel to find closure. Haunted by the case’s unresolved ending, he reconnects with former colleagues, including Irene Menéndez-Hastings (Soledad Villamil), his longtime unspoken love. As he retraces the pursuit of suspect Isidoro Gómez (Javier Godino), Espósito looks back at a criminal whose fate remains hanging in the air.
The Secret in Their Eyes shows one alarming point about the judicial system: it is not perfect. The bleak reality is that certain individuals within the institution have no real interest in bringing justice. Some are more invested in keeping criminals untouched so they can be used for their own self-interests. More importantly, The Secret in Their Eyes shows that police cases can take years — even decades — to be resolved. Justice is often heartbreaking; rarely is it heroic.
9
‘Wind River’ (2017)
On the frozen Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, tracker Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) discovers the body of a young Native American woman. Rookie FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) arrives and partners with Cory, covering everything from the unpredictably harsh terrain to limited authority. As evidence of assault emerges, everything comes down to the victim’s unknown boyfriend.
Wind River addresses one of America’s biggest yet overshadowed crises: missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Many of these cases stem from a lack of authoritative resources and the sheer difficulty of the terrain. It is a no-man’s land in Wyoming, and as shown through Cory’s and Jane’s investigative methods, there is no single “correct” approach to police work in places where the law is no longer relevant.
10
‘Zodiac’ (2007)
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes obsessed with identifying the mysterious Zodiac Killer, who terrorizes Northern California with cryptic letters and murders. As investigators and journalists pursue leads, the case consumes their lives. Cartoonist Robert Graysmith’s (Gyllenhaal) fixation strains his career and family, but he’s already so close to figuring out the decades-long mystery.
Zodiac is more about Robert’s obsession with solving the case than the case itself. Every time Robert seems to gain the upper hand, his efforts ultimately end in failure. Audiences are taken through Robert’s investigative highs and lows, riding on a wild momentum that doesn’t seem to end. Meanwhile, the killer barely makes an appearance, but whether it’s through letters or coded messages, he knows how to make a scene.
- Release Date
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March 2, 2007
- Runtime
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157 minutes
- Writers
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James Vanderbilt
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Ceán Chaffin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Bradley J. Fischer
Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie shared a candid Easter 2026 message, questioning the depth of the Christian Jesus’ suffering amid her mother, Nancy Guthrie’s, ongoing disappearance.
“Good morning, everybody. Happy Easter,” Guthrie said while attending Good Shepherd New York’s digital Easter service on Sunday, April 5, per Variety. “And Easter is happy. It is flowers and pastels and baby bunnies. It is sunshine and joy and hope. It is rebirth and second chances and new life and fresh starts. It is the most important day of the year for all of us who believe, even more than Christ’s birth, more than his death. His resurrection, his second birth into a permanent life, that is what is most crucial to us. His revival and resurrection means the same for us. We celebrate today the promise of a new life that never ends in death.”
She continued, “But standing here today, I have to tell you, there are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away, when life itself seems far harder than death. These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment for most of us, there will come a time in our life when these feelings hold sway.”
After the Guthrie family’s matriarch went missing on January 31, Guthrie told the congregation that she has experienced her own “season of trial,” much like the Christian Jesus Christ.
Savannah Guthrie opened up about how she’s leaned on her faith amid the ongoing search for her mom, Nancy Guthrie. “My faith is strong and resolute,” Savannah, 54, said during her sit-down interview with Hoda Kotb on the Thursday, March 26, episode of the Today show. “But I early on felt — and I heard […]
“Jesus, in his short life, experienced every single emotion that we humans can feel,” she continued, before she openly “questioned whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel — this grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld in those darkest moments.”
Nancy and Savannah Guthrie Courtesy of NBC News
“But after Jesus died, after he breathed his last, what did he actually know on the cross? He cried out, ‘My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?’ That is the anguished cry of someone who does not know the answers,” Guthrie added. “Where did his soul and his spirit go in those days in between? And what was he thinking? Did he think his time in the grave would be a day or two, or 1000 years in the grave? Does his agony seem indefinite to him? That torment of uncertainty, the way indefinite pain can feel eternal. Perhaps he did know this feeling after all.”
Guthrie, who is scheduled to return to the Today show on Monday, April 6, then openly questioned if her pondering was “too dark a message to share on Easter morning.”
“But I have long believed that we miss out on fully celebrating resurrection if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death,” she added. “It is the darkness that makes this morning’s light so magnificent, so blindly beautiful. It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed.”
Shortly after Savannah’s mother was reported missing, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos announced that authorities believe the 84-year-old was kidnapped from her home. Despite multiple so-called ransom letters, home security footage featuring a possible intruder and potential clues left at the scene of Nancy’s Arizona home, no suspects have been identified in the ongoing case.
Savannah Guthrie will share more insight into the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, in a new interview more than 50 days after the 84-year-old went missing. During the Wednesday, March 25, episode of the Today show, host Craig Melvin introduced a clip from Savannah’s upcoming sit-down with Hoda Kotb, marking her first interview about […]
Savannah and her siblings — Camron Guthrie, 61, and Annie Guthrie, 56 — have been outspoken since their mother’s apparent kidnapping, pleading for her return via multiple social media posts. Their most recent statement came on March 21.
“We are deeply grateful for the outpouring from neighbors, friends and the people of Tucson. We are all family now,” the family shared in a news special, which aired via Tucson’s local KVOA-TV News channel. “We continue to believe it’s Tucsonians, and the greater Southern Arizona community, that hold the key to finding resolution in this case. Someone knows something.”
Taylor Sheridan‘s chokehold over the Paramount+ streaming charts is clear. In the current global TV ranks, five of the ten are Sheridan shows, with one of the most popular continuing to dominate as news of the fourth season continues to arrive. Tulsa King, Sheridan’s hit crime saga starring Sylvester Stallone and Frank Grillo, recently added Flula Borg of The Rookie fame to the cast of Season 4, with the building of anticipation for the Samuel L. Jackson-led spin-off helping keep the series high in the charts.
But the credit for Tulsa King‘s success cannot all be given to Sheridan, with the show unlikely to be as triumphant on the streaming charts without its perfectly assembled cast, one of which is also finding success with a forgotten 2024 action thriller. Directed by John Swab, Grillo stars opposite Andy Garcia and Josh Hutcherson in Long Gone Heroes, a blend of mystery and action that debuted in September 2024. The movie marked Grillo’s fifth collaboration with Swab, with Grillo saying of the director in an interview: “I love this kid. I think he’s dynamite.”
At the time of writing, Long Gone Heroes is one of the ten most-streamed movies on Paramount+ in the U.S., joining the likes of Edgar Wright‘s recent adaptation of The Running Man, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, and more on the list. A synopsis for Long Gone Heroes reads:
“Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced back into the field of battle to save his niece, who is being held in South America. As the fight intensifies, Gunner and his team discover that her disappearance is part of a corrupt private operation that hits way too close to home.”
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How Did Critics Respond to ‘Long Gone Heroes’?
Although the film faced an overall mixed response, including a 51% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from audiences, some critics were pleasantly surprised by this action thriller. Writing for The New York Times, Robert Daniels called it “A tactical and efficient film” and likened it to Commando. Radio Times critic James Mottram was less impressed, writing, “Complete with murky, night-vision-tinged visuals, it’s all action and precious little character development.”
Long Gone Heroes is streaming on Paramount+. Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.
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September 20, 2024
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122 Minutes
- Director
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John Swab
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John Swab, Santiago Manes Moreno
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